Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is responsible for the management of the ocean shore state recreation area. They are seeking public comment until February 6, 2012, on administrative rule changes affecting Oregon's ocean shore.

The University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History teamed up with Oregon Imaging Centers. Researchers recently used a C-T scan to take images of a five million-year-old saber-toothed salmon skull. The images are now online for anyone to look at.